Fundraising Opportunities

Last Thursday at the end-of-the-year picnic, school board member and Oakton parent, Omar Brown, picked our two winners. A 2nd place prize of a $50 Target gift card was chosen first, and then the big moment…for the brand new Apple iPad! Both prize winners were very excited! We would like to recognize Sandra Brown, Oakton grandparent and Weichert Realtors broker, for donating the iPad & gift card. We are grateful for such generosity!

Thank you to all the families who worked so hard to sell raffle tickets – we exceeded our goal and raised $6,500! A big shout out to our #1 ticket sellers – the Bilski sisters – who sold just shy of 300 tickets. Amazing! Several families sold 100+ tickets as well! And congratulations to the 1st Grade – who had the most participants. We hope you enjoyed your pizza party!

We are so happy that the Oakton PTA will start off next year strong and ready to continue providing fun and enriching activities for our whole community – such as picnics, program scholarships, club support (chess, chorus, running club) field trips, author visits, teacher appreciation week, edible garden and assistance with service projects such as ESCCA and the eye glass fund. We have a community to be proud of! Congratulations, and warmest appreciation for everyone’s hard work and support! Go Team Oakton!

A big THANK YOU to all the volunteers that joined us welcoming the Gardeneers and getting our Edible Garden ready for the season. The Gardeneers were on hand to help, as were a slew of parents, students, administrators, teachers, staff and community members. Evanston Community TV was conducting interviews. We are all excited to see what tasty treats our garden (now with newly installed art work throughout) will grow, and all that we can learn from it.

Many thanks to our local business sponsors for helping us to bring the Gardeneers to Oakton! If you or your business like to be a sponsor and have your name or logo displayed on our sponsor banner please email Alicia Aiken – Chair of Garden & Grounds Committee – at alicia.l.aiken at gmail dot com or give her a call at 224-520-2701

A BIG THANK YOU to our Master Gardener sponsor: CBRE Caresand to the Lincolnwood Garden Club and Lando/Ribeiro family for your contributions that are helping us grow!

Thank you Tepic Landscaping for donating landscaping rocks for our caterpillar art!
Thank you Liza Mitchell for taking these awesome pictures and sharing them with us!

This holiday season, we are participating in the first annual Valli Produce Evanston Holiday Food Drive, in partnership with WLS-FM, for the chance to win $1000 for our school!

Help us win by stopping by Valli Produce Evanston, located at 1910 Dempster St., from Wednesday, December 9th through Sunday, January 3rd, to purchase and make a donation in our school’s designated shopping cart at the front of the store. All donations will be given to The Harvest Food Pantry in Evanston, which feeds up to 225 families each week. The school with the most donations will be given $1000 for the department of their choice from Valli Produce Evanston.

On Sunday, December 20th, WLS-FM’s Marti Jones will broadcast live from Valli Produce Evanston from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. to drive awareness. That same day, Valli will host a cookbook signing with Celebrity Chef Fabio Viviani from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

We are happy to announce that Julia Mendoza, mom to Emily & Aracely Hernandez is our lucky iPad winner this school year. THANK YOU ALL for participating in this year’s PTA fundraiser. We were able to raise a total of $3700 which will be used to support all-school field trips, our flag football team, the author visit and many, many more great things at our school.
Go Cougars!

We are holding a raffle to help raise money for field trips, assemblies, after and before school programs (think Chess Club and Flag Football among others), scholarships, and much more! Our goal is to raise $5,000 so we can continue to provide these services to our Oakton family.

If EVERY Oakton student sells just THREE raffle tickets, we will meet our goal! But the sky’s the limit, and the more money we raise, the more we can do for Oakton. Here are the details:

TICKETS COST $5 EACH OR 5 TICKETS FOR $20

RAFFLE PRIZE IS A BRAND NEW iPAD!!

Raffle prizes will be drawn at the “Globetrotting Cougars” fundraiser at Oakton School, Thursday, May 28. Winner need not be present to claim prize.

All tickets and money must be turned in by Friday, May 22. Highest seller receives a $50 gift card to the store of their choice. Grade with the most participants wins a pizza party!

Be sure to check your student’s backpack for their raffle tickets this Thursday, May 7. Contact Ellen Durston at ellen_almer at yahoo.com with any questions.